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The Book of Snobs

CHAPTER XXVIII--ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
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'That was the way the Carabases got their peerage,' the misanthropic Ponto said after dinner.
Well--I rang the bell at a little low side-door; it clanged and jingled and echoed for a long, long while, till at length a face, as of a housekeeper, peered through the door, and, as she saw my hand in my waistcoat pocket, opened it.

Unhappy, lonely housekeeper, I thought.

Is Miss Crusoe in her island more solitary?
The door clapped to, and I was in Castle Carabas.
'The side entrance and All,' says the housekeeper.

'The halligator hover the mantelpiece was brought home by Hadmiral St.Michaels, when a Capting with Lord Hanson.

The harms on the cheers is the harms of the Carabas family.' The hall was rather comfortable.


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